School History Books Are Wrong Or “A Better Way to Make Ancient Megaliths”
Carving stones as we all learnt in school — was not it.
Do you agree that today it is almost impossible to make a new invention or discovery by grinding within the ridges of the same discipline? Advanced medicine we enjoy today did not happen because doctors went and got a degree in physics and invented electricity. It was also not because they learnt how to build a computer and revolutionized microchips. Individuals from different disciplines made discoveries and then the smartest and the most entrepreneurial of folks “cross-bred” the industries, for example, introducing electronics and computers to medicine.
This is just one example but our daily lives are studded with such examples. The morale here is that the more experts from various walks of life look at the problem, the more likely we are to find the best solution possible.
In some cases it is not only difficult to get professionals of various industries to look at a problem — due to lack of monetary incentives — but the areas of certain sciences are being meticulously guarded by their life-long experts. Humans with PhDs who dedicated their lives to certain theories don’t like to look like fools when the next generation of individuals shine new light on the subject of the old thesis.
Increasingly, it feels like this is what has been happening to History.
Long story short: if you breed Archeology with Chemistry, you get Natron Theory — a theory about etching stones, including granite, with Natron Salt, also called Soda Ash, also called Sodium Carbonate, also Na2CO3.
Despite the formula drop in the paragraph above, this theory is so simple, and so elegant, a third grader will grasp it.
Salt, which is abundant on the surface of the planet Earth, was melted on a fire, poured on a rock (granite, basalt, sandstone, volcanic tuff, diorite, quartzite etc. — all with quartz in it) where it would etch the quartz in that rock effectively etching the rock. The product of etching is called water glass (sodium silicate) and if you combine water glass with wood ash you get …wait for it… Rock! So, etching rocks to make rocks that are moldable and soft before they become hard. This makes all kinds of Egyptian statues possible, the boulders with no mortar of Cusco Peru and all across the world, the hand imprints in the White Mountain in Wyoming US and the list goes on.
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it is probably a duck. If it looks like the stone was soft and malleable before it hardened — then it was soft and malleable before it hardened. We don’t have to reinvent the wheel. We just need to keep looking until we find an explanation that satisfies all of the evidence.
And let’s agree, the chemical etching explanation above makes way more sense than what they teach kids in history books today: that ancients carved stones with copper tools, stone tools and animal bones.
More evidence? This one is crazy: there is actually an Egyptian mural which until you read the above explanation of rock etching, makes little sense. With it, it makes all of the sense:
Above, natron is being melted and poured on a rock. Those are not shoes, they are bellows to pump oxygen to make the fire hotter (sodium carbonate becomes molten at 850 degrees Celsius), then a person with a mold in his hand pours the bricks.
Marcell Foti (Twitter/X handle @FoMaHun) is to be credited with this discovery, or rather “rediscovery”, and he beautifully describes the process with videos of him going through the etching process on his Natron Theory website.
It is impossible to redefine history within a single blog post, although frankly, it is not the point of this blog post. The point is to show how little we know and how ignorant and stuck up we can be in our belief systems and convictions. We leave no room for better explanations and for “what ifs”. Historians with PhDs dub anyone who dares to question the status quo a “pseudo-scientist” and cancels them outright, forbidding access to museums and historical sights.
Also, Nicolaus Copernicus said the Earth rotates around the Sun and it took 100 years for this truth to be widely accepted. Let’s keep that in perspective.
If you are interested in learning more about ancient geopolymers and Natron theory, here are the resources:
- Marcell Foti’s X account.
- Other accounts on Twitter who engage in this rediscovery and experiment with rock making — can be found in comments to Marcell’s posts.
- Natron Theory website.
- If you are eager to see it for yourself but are scared to set your house on fire (like me), you can buy a bottle of 40% waterglass on Amazon, mix it with some ash from a fireplace, and you will get a rock. The theory goes further into substituting ash with other metal-containing substances readily found on the surface of Earth.
Let’s stay curious, my friends.
